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Rushkoff’s last four commands hold a high importance for people who fall within the digital divide. People that fall within the digital divide either by choice or by necessity due to financial situations do not participate within these commands the same way that people that don’t fall within the digital divide do. Those that are a part of the digital divide don’t have the same ability to connect and communicate with other people. “Our digital networks are biased toward social connections- toward contact.” (p. 93). They also do not have the potential to socialize with people that are hundreds or thousands of miles away. People that fall within the digital divide also do not have as great of risk to be caught lying. When you have no presence on the Internet you are not putting a false or truthful image on the web, the only image you portray is the one people witness face to face. However when people don’t have access to the Internet they do not have access to the same resources that people who do have access do. “Digital networks were built for the purpose of sharing computing resources by people who were themselves sharing resources, technologies and credit in order to create it.” (p. 112). People that don’t have access to information on the Internet also don’t have access to how it works or how the programming that created the Internet works. Although people that do not fall within the digital divide know how to use the Internet many do not know the programming behind it.